Latest Contributions by GarethBaker1

I have an editable feature service (not hosted) where the data sits in an enterprise geodatabase (SQL Server) published from Pro 2.4.2 to the hosting server in ArcGIS Enterprise 10.8.1.  The service contains several point feature classes and a couple of line feature classes. Not sure if I'm encountering a bug or just something to do with the way I've configured things. In the Field Maps web app I have made some fairly simple forms for each feature class with a few of the fields set as required and some nice hints and formatting.  When it comes to trying to submit a line feature in Field Maps 21.1.1 build 396 on iOS I get the error message below saying Unable to Submit due to an attribute failing - in this case what is shown as the Length field which is Shape__Length in my database. I am unable to edit the length field on the form in Field Maps and wouldn't want to anyway because it should get automatically calculated for me. I'm also unable to remove the field from the form in Field Maps web app because it is a required field and I don't think I can make it a non-required field (and again probably wouldn't want to). If I open the same map in Collector (Aurora 20.2.4 build 2851) then the Length field does not appear on the editing pop-up and I can submit features with the field getting automatically populated behind the scenes successfully. If I add the feature service to a new map, don't do any form config in Field Maps web app and then open up in Field Maps iOS client then the Length field is also not shown and I can submit records. In both cases I'm assuming this is because form data is being ignored in Collector and it just isn't there in Field Maps. I guess I can live with not having any Field Maps form config saved with the map at this stage but would be good to know if this is a known issue that will be resolved in Enterprise 10.9 or if there are any other workarounds? Thanks in advance Gareth   ... View more

I'm trying to get my head around offline map packages and how we can best use them within our organisation (a UK water utility).  We have a nice VTPK for our whole area which is around 1gb in size and gets updated a couple of times a year. At the moment we don't have a slick process for sideloading this VTPK onto devices so I'm just looking at the standard process of creating offline map packages certain editing maps. In my example map we have our VTPK along with a set of read-only boundaries which might get updated once a month.  I then have two editable features services (one hosted in Portal 10.8.1 and one published from ArcGIS Server 10.8.1). I've created a test offline area with min level of detail 1:6,000,000 and max level of detail 1:400. Total package size is 115mb which is broken down as follows: VTPK - 113mb Read only boundaries - 1.4mb Editable layer 1 - 344k Editable layer 2 - 684k I have not scheduled any automatic updates for this area but I can see the option to manually refresh either the whole package or the individual components. So my questions are: If I set the map area to update automatically at say 11pm each day would this recreate all components of the map package including the VTPK and the boundaries, even though on most occasions they won't have changed? Or is it clever enough to detect the layers that have changed and only update those? If I choose not to do any automatic updates via this mechanism is there the option to use the ArcGIS API for Python or similar to script scheduled updates to only the two editable layers? Or would I have to do that process myself manually? ... View more

I'm trying to open the Field Maps app on iOS from a link that I've emailed to myself following the guidelines here: Deploy your map—ArcGIS Field Maps | Documentation As far as I can tell I'm using the correct syntax but whenever I click on a link it opens up the Edge browser on my phone and goes to a page where it prompts me to download Field Maps from either the Apple or Google Play store.  The app is already installed on the device via Microsoft Intune so how do I force it to open that instance of the app rather than open the web browser? ... View more

Hi, I'm just trying to get my head around the workflows for creating and downloading offline map areas in 10.8.1 and the Explorer app. I've prepared a test map and set the advanced options to use a vtpk that I've already sideloaded onto the device. I've then created a test area in the map which uses a raster tile package as the basemap. I did wonder why it created a tile package for the area when I've said to use the vtpk on the device but I guess this allows it to work where a different user may not have that specific basemap sideloaded. So I have my very small operational data package and then around 80mb of basemap. When I go to view the offline area in Explorer (iOS) I can see that the size of the package it wants to download is the 80mb rather than just the few hundred kb. If I click to download it gives me the impression that it is downloading the full 80mb (though it is difficult to tell because it does go pretty quickly via my relatively speedy broadband connection). Once downloaded it certainly looks as if it has downloaded the full 80mb of data including the basemap (which I don't actually want because I have my nice sideloaded version already on the device). If I pull down on the screen to refresh the details then the file size magically updates to exclude the basemap and just show the operational layers.  When I open the map area and start using it then it is correctly using the vtpk basemap from the device. My question is whether I've just been fooled into thinking that the basemap part of the package was downloaded or if it did go ahead and just download the whole thing, only disregarding the basemap part once it had checked that the sideloaded vtpk that it was expecting to see was actually there? It feels like it must be the former or it would surely defeat the purpose of having sideloaded the basemap, but if that is the case then would it be possible to indicate in the Explorer part of the workflow that it only needs to download the 495kb rather than the 80mb?  It would also potentially be useful if the Explorer interface indicated that the offline map area is configured to use a local basemap and even state the name of the package that it expects to use. Also showing the date of when the current downloaded data package (not the basemap) was produced would be useful. I appreciate these bits are more queries for Explorer rather than Enterprise. ... View more